用扩散模型直接插帧,让事件相机视频更清晰流畅。
EventDiff: A Unified and Efficient Diffusion Model Framework for Event-based Video Frame Interpolation
- 用潜空间去噪插帧,不再依赖运动估计
- 在Vimeo90K-Triplet上比现有方法高1.98dB PSNR
- 比同类扩散方法快4.24倍,适合实时应用
视频帧插值(VFI)是计算机视觉中基础但极具挑战的任务,尤其在大运动、遮挡和光照变化下。事件相机的兴起为解决这些难题提供了新路径。现有基于事件的VFI方法通过手工设计的中间表示(如光流)恢复复杂运动,但在细微运动场景下常因显式运动建模而损失图像保真度。扩散模型通过去噪过程重建帧,无需显式运动估计或扭曲操作,具备潜力。本文提出EventDiff,一种统一高效的事件相机视频插值扩散框架。其核心为新型事件-帧混合自编码器(HAE),包含轻量级时空交叉注意力(STCA)模块,可有效融合动态事件流与静态帧。EventDiff在潜空间直接执行去噪插帧,对多样且复杂的场景更具鲁棒性。采用两阶段训练策略:先预训练HAE,再联合优化。该方法在多个合成与真实世界事件数据集上达到最先进性能,在Vimeo90K-Triplet上相比现有最佳方法提升最高1.98dB PSNR,SNU-FILM多难度任务表现优异。相较于新兴的扩散基方法,本方法在Vimeo90K-Triplet上实现最高5.72dB PSNR提升,推理速度提升4.24倍。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Video Frame Interpolation (VFI) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, particularly under conditions involving large motion, occlusion, and lighting variation. Recent advancements in event cameras have opened up new opportunities for addressing these challenges. While existing event-based VFI methods have succeeded in recovering large and complex motions by leveraging handcrafted intermediate representations such as optical flow, these designs often compromise high-fidelity image reconstruction under subtle motion scenarios due to their reliance on explicit motion modeling. Meanwhile, diffusion models provide a promising alternative for VFI by reconstructing frames through a denoising process, eliminating the need for explicit motion estimation or warping operations. In this work, we propose EventDiff, a unified and efficient event-based diffusion model framework for VFI. EventDiff features a novel Event-Frame Hybrid AutoEncoder (HAE) equipped with a lightweight Spatial-Temporal Cross Attention (STCA) module that effectively fuses dynamic event streams with static frames. Unlike previous event-based VFI methods, EventDiff performs interpolation directly in the latent space via a denoising diffusion process, making it more robust across diverse and challenging VFI scenarios. Through a two-stage training strategy that first pretrains the HAE and then jointly optimizes it with the diffusion model, our method achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple synthetic and real-world event VFI datasets. The proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art event-based VFI methods by up to 1.98dB in PSNR on Vimeo90K-Triplet and shows superior performance in SNU-FILM tasks with multiple difficulty levels. Compared to the emerging diffusion-based VFI approach, our method achieves up to 5.72dB PSNR gain on Vimeo90K-Triplet and 4.24X faster inference.
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